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Kansas City Royals vs. New York Yankees, at Kauffman Stadium, August 30, 2016 Matchups, Tickets, Preview

Date:

Tuesday, August 30, 2016

Start Time:

7:15ct (local), 8:15et

Venue:

Kauffman Stadium

Series:

Game #2 of a 3-game series

Average Temp:

84° (based on last ten years)

Yankees

Manager:

Joe Girardi

Game #:

133

On This Date:

64-34

Royals

Manager:

Ned Yost

Game #:

134

On This Date:

21-21

Season Series
Mon, May 09, 2016 NYY  6  KCR  3     
Tue, May 10, 2016 NYY 10  KCR  7     
Wed, May 11, 2016 KCR  7 @NYY  3     
Thu, May 12, 2016 NYY  7  KCR  3     
Mon, Aug 29, 2016 KCR  8  NYY  5     

Tue, Aug 30, 2016 NYY    @KCR  8:15pm
Wed, Aug 31, 2016 NYY    @KCR  8:15pm

                         All times ET

New York Yankees

67-63, 4th, 7½ GB, 5½ GB in WC / Schedule

Lineups / Orders / Splits: Bat / Pitch / GL: Bat / Pitch

 Home:   37-28   Road:   30-35   ExtrInn: 2-3 
 vsRHP:  50-43   vsLHP:  17-20   1-Run:  20-9 
 vsEast: 21-28   vsCntrl:19-12   vsWest: 20-13 IL: 7-10

Last 10 Games
Gm# Date & Box   Opp W/L Score      Record   Place/GB
130 Mon, Aug 29  @KCR  L   5-8       67-63  4th  7.5 gb
129 Sun, Aug 28   BAL  L   0-5       67-62  4th  6.5 gb
128 Sat, Aug 27   BAL  W  13-5       67-61  4th  5.5 gb
127 Fri, Aug 26   BAL  W  14-4       66-61  4th  5.5 gb
126 Wed, Aug 24  @SEA  W   5-0       65-61  4th  6.0 gb
125 Tue, Aug 23  @SEA  W   5-1       64-61  4th  7.0 gb
124 Mon, Aug 22  @SEA  L   5-7       63-61  4th  7.0 gb
123 Sun, Aug 21  @LAA  L   0-2       63-60  4th  6.5 gb
122 Sat, Aug 20  @LAA  W   5-1       63-59  4th  6.5 gb
121 Fri, Aug 19  @LAA  W   7-0       62-59  4th  6.5 gb
 Last 10: 6-4    Last 20:12-8    Last 30:15-15

Kansas City Royals

69-62, 3rd, 5½ GB, 4 GB in WC / Schedule

Lineups / Orders / Splits: Bat / Pitch / GL: Bat / Pitch

 Home:   41-21   Road:   28-41   ExtrInn: 6-1 
 vsRHP:  53-46   vsLHP:  16-16   1-Run:  20-15
 vsEast: 15-15   vsCntrl:34-17   vsWest: 10-20 IL:10-10

Last 10 Games
Gm# Date & Box   Opp W/L Score      Record   Place/GB
131 Mon, Aug 29   NYY  W   8-5       69-62  3rd  5.5 gb
130 Sun, Aug 28  @BOS  W  10-4       68-62  3rd  5.5 gb
129 Sat, Aug 27  @BOS  L   3-8       67-62  3rd  6.5 gb
128 Fri, Aug 26  @BOS  W   6-3       67-61  3rd  6.5 gb
127 Thu, Aug 25  @MIA  W   5-2       66-61  3rd  6.5 gb
126 Wed, Aug 24  @MIA  L   0-3       65-61  3rd  7.5 gb
125 Tue, Aug 23  @MIA  W   1-0       65-60  3rd  7.5 gb
124 Sun, Aug 21   MIN  W   2-1       64-60  3rd  8.0 gb
123 Sat, Aug 20   MIN  W  10-0       63-60  3rd  8.0 gb
122 Fri, Aug 19   MIN  W   5-4 (11)  62-60  3rd  9.0 gb
 Last 10: 8-2    Last 20:16-4    Last 30:20-10

Last 10 games for these teams head-to-head
Mon, Aug 29, 2016 KCR  8  NYY  5        W:Dillon Gee (6-7), L: Michael Pineda (6-11), S: Kelvin Herrera (11)
Thu, May 12, 2016 NYY  7  KCR  3        W:Nathan Eovaldi (3-2), L: Ian Kennedy (4-3), S: none
Wed, May 11, 2016 KCR  7 @NYY  3        W:Yordano Ventura (3-2), L: Michael Pineda (1-4), S: none
Tue, May 10, 2016 NYY 10  KCR  7        W:Andrew Miller (2-0), L: Kelvin Herrera (0-1), S: Aroldis Chapman (1)
Mon, May 09, 2016 NYY  6  KCR  3        W:Kirby Yates (2-0), L: Chris Young (1-5), S: none

Wed, May 27, 2015 NYY  4  KCR  2        W:Michael Pineda (6-2), L: Chris Young (4-1), S: Andrew Miller (14)
Tue, May 26, 2015 NYY  5  KCR  1        W:Adam Warren (3-3), L: Jason Vargas (3-2), S: none
Mon, May 25, 2015 NYY 14  KCR  1        W:Nathan Eovaldi (4-1), L: Jeremy Guthrie (4-3), S: none
Sun, May 17, 2015 KCR  6  NYY  0        W:Edinson Volquez (3-3), L: Chris Capuano (0-1), S: none
Sat, May 16, 2015 NYY  5 @KCR  1        W:CC Sabathia (2-5), L: Danny Duffy (2-3), S: none
Season Series: 2016 - NYY over 3-2; 2015 - NYY won 4-2; 2014 - KCR won 4-3; All-Time - NYY leads 283-193

SP: Masahiro Tanaka (27, RHP, 11-4, 3.11)

2016 Gamelogs / 2016 Splits / vs. KCR Current Lineup

Split			IP	H	R	ER	BB	SO	HR	ERA/Pit	GSc
2016 (11-4)			168.0	152	65	58	28	142	16	3.11
2015 (12-7)			154.0	126	66	60	27	139	25	3.51
2014 (13-5)			136.1	123	47	42	21	141	15	2.77

Last 7 GS		4-2	45.0	41	16	15	5	42	5	3.00	59
2016-08-24	@SEA	W	7.0	6	0	0	1	5	0	106	69
2016-08-19	@LAA	W	7.2	5	0	0	0	9	0	100	78
2016-08-13	TBR	W	7.0	5	4	4	0	8	2	79	59
2016-08-07	CLE	W	6.0	6	1	1	0	8	0	101	64
2016-08-02	@NYM	L	6.1	8	7	6	0	4	2	93	35
2016-07-27	@HOU	L	5.0	7	4	4	2	4	1	94	39
2016-07-22	SFG	ND	6.0	4	0	0	2	4	0	83	66

Last 5 v.KCR		0-0	7.0	7	6	6	0	4	3	7.71	43
2016-05-10	KCR	ND	7.0	7	6	6	0	4	3	79	43

SP: Edinson Volquez (32, RHP, 10-10, 4.88)

2016 Gamelogs / 2016 Splits / vs. NYY Current Lineup

Split			IP	H	R	ER	BB	SO	HR	ERA/Pit	GSc
2016 (10-10)			156.2	170	95	85	56	114	18	4.88
2015 (13-9)			200.1	190	89	79	72	155	16	3.55
2014 (13-7)			192.2	166	75	65	71	140	17	3.04

Last 7 GS		2-2	38.1	51	29	23	12	23	6	5.40	41
2016-08-25	@MIA	W	5.0	3	2	0	1	2	0	82	58
2016-08-19	MIN	ND	4.1	6	4	4	1	5	1	73	39
2016-08-14	@MIN	W	6.0	5	4	2	1	3	1	97	52
2016-08-09	CHW	ND	6.0	10	4	4	1	2	0	97	37
2016-08-03	@TBR	L	5.0	11	8	7	3	3	2	101	15
2016-07-29	@TEX	L	6.0	9	6	5	2	5	2	105	35
2016-07-24	TEX	ND	6.0	7	1	1	3	3	0	91	54

Last 5 v.NYY		2-1	20.1	16	7	7	1	13	4	3.10	60
2015-05-17	NYY	W	7.0	3	0	0	0	5	0	101	76
2014-05-17	@NYY	L	6.1	6	5	5	0	3	4	81	44
2008-06-20	@NYY	W	7.0	7	2	2	1	5	0	103	59

Baseball-Reference.com-- Baseball's History: 1871-Now

Yankees Batters (4.28 RS/G) vs. Royals Pitchers (4.15 RA/G) -- OPS ranges: bad - ≤.650; avg: .750; good: ≥.850

PA/OPS 36.Volquez
G/S/vB 33.Flynn*
G/S/vB 40.Herrera
G/S/vB 47.Moylan
G/S/vB 48.Soria
G/S/vB 64.Strahm*
G/S/vB 67.Wang
G/S/vB 32.Young
G/S/vB PA/vRH BA/OBP/SLG/OPS vLH/RH Rd Last 28d SB/CS HR/E

26.Austin G/S/vP ··· 1/.000 ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· 32/27 .188/.188/.281/.469 .000/.556 .333 32/.469 1/0 1/0

14.Castro G/S/vP 24/.667 4/1.250 3/.333 2/.000 2/.000 ··· 4/.500 3/.666 521/380 .267/.300/.428/.728 .759/.716 .608 100/.909 4/0 18/9

22.Ellsbury* G/S/vP 10/.600 ··· 4/1.000 1/.000 3/1.167 ··· 6/.666 7/1.167 503/353 .261/.324/.367/.691 .609/.726 .735 94/.651 18/8 6/3

11.Gardner* G/S/vP 6/.834 1/.000 2/3.000 2/.500 5/.750 ··· 1/no AB 14/1.275 495/351 .256/.345/.364/.708 .665/.727 .657 74/.644 13/2 7/3

18.Gregorius* G/S/vP 10/1.611 1/3.000 2/1.000 ··· 1/.000 ··· ··· 7/.429 481/361 .288/.317/.468/.785 .871/.753 .734 98/.836 6/1 17/15

12.Headley# G/S/vP 9/.611 2/.000 1/.000 7/.286 ··· ··· ··· 9/.472 428/290 .255/.329/.395/.724 .697/.741 .709 67/.816 4/1 12/9

31.Hicks# G/S/vP 6/1.000 1/no AB 5/.400 ··· 3/1.667 ··· ··· 11/1.636 316/212 .215/.273/.333/.606 .495/.661 .505 79/.815 3/3 7/1

99.Judge G/S/vP ··· 1/.000 ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· 53/45 .196/.283/.370/.653 .250/.732 .208 53/.653 0/0 2/0

34.McCann* G/S/vP 17/.886 2/1.000 1/3.000 1/.000 4/.833 ··· 14/1.121 29/.818 404/325 .234/.334/.403/.737 .693/.748 .752 72/.640 1/0 16/3

27.Romine G/S/vP ··· ··· ··· ··· 1/2.000 ··· ··· ··· 148/66 .246/.272/.406/.678 .751/.587 .783 24/.568 1/0 4/1

24.Sanchez G/S/vP ··· ··· 1/2.000 ··· ··· ··· ··· 1/no AB 99/80 .398/.465/.864/1.328 .576/1.499 1.361 95/1.389 1/0 11/0

25.Teixeira# G/S/vP 12/.694 ··· 4/.000 1/.000 8/.125 ··· 12/1.250 23/.737 369/258 .204/.287/.343/.631 .642/.625 .552 70/.748 2/0 11/3

17.Torreyes G/S/vP ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· 1/.000 113/83 .295/.345/.448/.793 .603/.856 .980 34/1.189 1/0 1/3

IP 156.2 41.2 60.0 33.0 56.1 13.1 51.1 80.0 TOTAL .254/.314/.407/.721 .708/.727 .689 .818 60/16 146/69

ERA-K/9

4.88/6.5

2.59/7.3

1.80/11.2

3.55/7.6

3.67/9.1

0.68/13.5

4.38/5.1

5.96/9.3

3.99/8.1

Catcher Def.
(SB-CS-PB)
McCann (47-14-4)
Romine (20-3-1)
Sanchez (5-7-1)

OF G: LF / CF / RF - A

BF/BA 690/.275 165/.199 230/.202 143/.270 242/.252 48/.136 223/.291 361/.280 .251 Gardner
Ellsbury
Hicks
Judge
Austin
Torreyes 116/0/0/6
0/118/0/4
25/23/74/3
0/0/14/2
1/0/1/0
0/0/2/0

OPS .751 .587 .548 .689 .770 .345 .795 .931 .729

vs LHB (BF-OPS) 357/.742 62/.611 113/.547 46/.997 121/.649 18/.627 109/.759 175/1.160 .742

vs RHB (BF-OPS) 333/.759 103/.573 117/.548 97/.550 121/.898 30/.170 114/.827 186/.733 .719

Home 377/.712 84/.528 121/.566 72/.742 114/.778 13/.237 129/.792 197/.769

Last 28d days 123/.838 31/.373 47/.633 35/.430 48/.566 43/.311 45/.716 42/.587

HR/SB/CS 18/12/5 4/0/0 4/0/1 2/0/0 8/1/2 0/0/1 6/2/2 26/9/2 166/37/35

Usage ····X··· o··o···· X··oX·o· oo·o·o·· ·X··X·X· ·X··X·X· ··X··X·· X··Xo···

Royals Batters (4.03 RS/G) vs. Yankees Pitchers (4.38 RA/G) -- OPS ranges: bad - ≤.650; avg: .750; good: ≥.850

PA/OPS 19.Tanaka
G/S/vB 68.Betances
G/S/vB 29.Clippard
G/S/vB 61.Heller
G/S/vB 39.Layne*
G/S/vB 47.Parker
G/S/vB 43.Warren
G/S/vB 50.Yates
G/S/vB PA/vRH BA/OBP/SLG/OPS vLH/RH Hm Last 28d SB/CS HR/E

14.Burns# G/S/vP 6/.533 ··· ··· ··· 1/.000 ··· 3/1.334 2/.000 301/231 .230/.265/.297/.562 .634/.540 .608 9/.222 14/4 0/2

9.Butera G/S/vP ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· 2/.000 ··· 1/.000 100/81 .261/.306/.457/.763 .433/.843 .895 22/.286 0/0 3/4

6.Cain G/S/vP 3/3.334 6/.167 ··· ··· 2/2.000 1/no AB 3/.000 2/1.000 424/327 .287/.335/.408/.743 1.010/.665 .724 101/.764 12/5 9/3

24.Colon G/S/vP ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· 2/.000 136/95 .236/.304/.276/.580 .497/.615 .604 24/.499 0/1 0/0

19.Cuthbert G/S/vP 3/2.334 ··· ··· ··· 1/.000 1/2.000 ··· 2/.000 403/302 .290/.326/.438/.764 .912/.714 .820 112/.715 1/0 10/13

1.Dyson* G/S/vP 3/.666 ··· ··· ··· 1/.000 1/.000 4/.000 2/.000 243/221 .239/.315/.338/.653 .981/.621 .701 33/.531 21/7 1/1

2.Escobar G/S/vP 4/.666 3/1.000 3/1.000 ··· ··· 1/5.000 7/.000 3/.000 567/430 .265/.296/.341/.637 .514/.676 .676 102/.846 14/4 4/13

4.Gordon* G/S/vP 3/1.000 2/.000 1/.000 ··· 3/.000 ··· 4/.250 1/no AB 394/267 .227/.325/.394/.718 .718/.719 .722 98/.964 6/1 14/1

35.Hosmer* G/S/vP 3/.000 3/.000 ··· ··· 4/.000 ··· 5/.600 2/1.000 547/377 .274/.336/.433/.770 .675/.813 .777 108/.723 5/2 18/6

27.Mondesi# G/S/vP ··· ··· ··· ··· ··· 1/2.000 ··· 1/.000 105/71 .191/.232/.298/.530 .508/.539 .476 78/.549 6/0 1/4

25.Morales# G/S/vP 6/.000 2/2.000 1/.000 ··· 5/.400 ··· 2/.000 1/.000 488/340 .250/.318/.430/.747 .838/.706 .791 90/.782 0/0 20/0

16.Orlando G/S/vP ··· 1/.000 ··· ··· ··· ··· 2/2.500 ··· 372/256 .307/.333/.409/.742 .843/.697 .819 92/.673 11/2 4/3

13.Perez G/S/vP 3/.000 2/.000 ··· ··· 1/no AB ··· 4/.000 3/1.666 451/321 .260/.295/.468/.763 .812/.743 .886 84/.699 0/0 20/4

IP 168.0 60.2 48.1 1.2 36.2 8.0 49.1 35.0 TOTAL .263/.313/.400/.713 .759/.696 .756 .718 83/27 116/74

ERA-K/9

3.11/7.6

2.23/16.0

3.54/10.4

10.80/5.3

3.44/7.8

4.50/5.6

5.11/7.3

5.40/11.3

4.26/9.0

Catcher Def.
(SB-CS-PB)
Butera (7-3-0)
Perez (30-32-3)

OF G: LF / CF / RF - A

BF/BA 678/.236 239/.193 198/.240 10/.333 151/.229 37/.265 209/.238 157/.263 .249 Dyson
Orlando
Gordon
Burns
Cain
Morales 19/34/21/8
0/30/67/6
97/0/0/6
2/72/4/4
0/72/27/3
0/0/5/0

OPS .626 .554 .729 1.178 .624 .736 .738 .740 .730

vs LHB (BF-OPS) 334/.622 107/.656 99/.872 3/.000 82/.646 18/.826 75/.517 56/.577 .755

vs RHB (BF-OPS) 344/.629 132/.471 99/.581 7/1.738 69/.599 19/.652 134/.863 101/.831 .713

Road 345/.571 131/.709 101/.756 / 55/.465 12/1.383 103/.760 69/.836

Last 28d days 105/.517 36/.590 39/.615 10/1.178 31/.337 37/.736 44/.777 29/.809

HR/SB/CS 16/7/2 4/17/0 8/2/4 1/0/0 1/1/5 1/0/0 9/4/3 4/7/2 169/72/24

Usage ·····X·· ·····Xo· ··X··X·· ·X·X···· o·X···oo Xo·o···· ·oX····· X·Xo···X

Key for Batter vs. Pitcher Grids on the next pageKey for Batter vs. Pitcher Grids Below
Batter vs. Pitcher totals are career totals. All others are year-to-date.
PA - Plate Appearances (`AB+BB+HBP+SH+SF+CI`) BF - Batters Faced BA - Batting Average OBP - On-Base Percentage SLG - Slugging Percentage Last 28d - PA and OPS in the last 28 days. SB/CS - Stolen Bases and Caught Stealing HR/E - Home Runs and Errors Made ERA-K/9 - Earned Run Average and SO per 9 IP Total - Team totals for those categories. Usage - See the note below the grid.	OPS - On-Base Percentage + Slugging Percentage (a good single number for measuring a player's hitting, avg. is .750 or so) RA/G & RS/G - Runs scored and allowed per game. PA/vRH - Plate Appearances overall/PA's vs. Right-handed Pitchers Catcher Def. - Catcher Defense with each catcher's Stolen Bases, Caught Stealings, and Passed Balls allowed. G/S/vB or G/S/vP - Links to the player's 2016 gamelogs, splits, or career batter vs. pitcher results vLH/vRH - OPS vs. left-handed pitchers and vs. right-handed pitchers Hm or Rd, Home or Road - OPS or OPS allowed in home or road games. OF G: LF / CF / RF - A - Outfielders with the games played by position and their total number of assists vs LHB - Batters faced and OPS allowed against left-handed batters vs RHB - Batters faced and OPS allowed against right-handed batters HR/SB/CS - Pitcher's Home Runs, Stolen Bases and Caught Stealings allowed

MLB Best, Middle, Worst

Stat

Best

Middle

Worst

RS/G

BOS 5.44

SFG 4.51

ATL 3.70

RA/G

CHC 3.42

PIT 4.47

ARI 5.61

J. Altuve .354

E. Hosmer .274

T. Frazier .213

OBP

M. Trout .434

M. Napoli .340

F. Galvis .270

SLG

D. Ortiz .632

D. Pedroia .457

E. Aybar .318

OPS

D. Ortiz 1.038

J. Abreu .800

E. Aybar .610

ERA

K. Hendricks 2.19

J. Eickhoff 3.87

A. Sanchez 5.92

K/9IP

J. Fernandez 12.74

D. Keuchel 7.71

M. Perez 4.56

Usage -- each character represents the number of pitches thrown by the pitcher for yesterday, two days ago, three days ago, ...., up to eight days ago:
· - did not pitch; o - less than 16 pitches; X - at least 16 pitches (the median relief outing)
An Example ( ·X···o·X ): Yesterday off, 16 or more pitches, three days off, less than 16 pitches, day off, 16 or more pitches (8 days ago). Yesterday is in bold for improved scanning.